Shortening creamer



Patented Aug. 31, 1937 j 2,091,754

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SHORTENING CREAMER Ida J. Fedje, Berwick, N. Dak. Application December 1'1, 1936, Serial No. 116,436 2 Claims. (01. 259-144) This invention relates to a culinary implement The head or bowl I of the improved shortening and more particularly to a shortening creamer creamer and the arms 2 which extend upwardly intended-for use when mixing butter and sugar from opposite ends thereof are formed from a together. metal blank, the metal being of sufficient thick- When making cake, sugar and butter or other ness to impart rigidity to the bowl and provide 5 shortening must be thoroughly mixed together arms of sufficient thickness to prevent them from to produce a light and creamy mixture. At the being bent out of shape when the creamer is in present time this operation is carried out by use. The bowl or head I is of an oval shape when means of a spoon having slots or other openings viewed in top plan, as shown in Figure 2, and is formed therein but in view of the fact that the arcuate in both longitudinal and transverse sec- 10 spoon has a handle extending from one end tion. Therefore, the bowl or head is of substanthereof and the mixing operation is usually pertially the same shape as the bowl of a spoon but formed in a deep bowl it is difficult to thoroughly is rounded at both ends instead of tapering toa mix the butter and sugar without exerting strain point at one end. Slots 3 are formed longitudiupon the wrist due to the angle at which the nally in the bowl or head in transverse spaced re- 15 spoon must be held. Therefore, one object of lation to each other in order that, when the the invention is to provide a shortening creamer creamer is in use, the sugar and butter or other of such construction that it may be very easily shortening may pass through these slots and beheld and disposed substantially vertically in the come very thoroughly mixed and result in a soft bowl with the material-engaging head of the creamy mixture in a short time. 20 implement extending horizontally and motion in The arms 2 of the creamer extend straight up a vertically disposed substantially circular path from ends-of the bowl or head I at right angles imparted to the material-engaging head which thereto and have their upper portions bent inwill cause the butter and sugar to be easily and Wardly toward each other to provide tongues 4 quickly intermingled. which are disposed at right angles to the arms 25 Another object of the invention is to provide a and are seated in a groove or recess 5 formed shortening creamer wherein the slotted materiallongitudinally of the handle 6 in the under engaging head of the implement has arms exportion thereof. Circumferentially extending tending upwardly from its end and firmly congrooves or recesses l are formed in the handle 30 nected with a horizontally extending handle dis- 6 in spaced relation to each other longitudinally posed in parallel spaced relation to the longithereof and in these recesses I are mounted rings tudinal axis of the head so that the hand graspor bands 8 formed of tongues or strips 8' extending the handle will be disposed over the materialing from opposite sides of the tongues 4. The engaging head instead of beyond one end thereof. tongues or arms 4 and the bands 8 have their Another object of the invention is to so conouter surfaces flush with the surface of the 35 meet the arms with the handle that the handle handle and, therefore, the handle may be grasped will be prevented from having longitudinal moveand firmly held without inconvenience due to ment or rotary movement and thus movement of engagement of the arms 4 and bands 8 with the the arms relative to the handle prevented. hand. The fact that the bands 8 and the arms 4 It is another object of the invention to proare countersunk prevents the handle from slip- 40 vide a shortening creamer which may be formed ping longitudinally through the bands and also from a single blank of sheet metal and thus prevents rotary movement of the handle in the cheaply manufactured. bands. Therefore, the arms or standards 2 are The invention is illustrated in the accompanyheld rigid with the handle and prevented from ing drawing, wherein moving about it while creaming the sugar and Figure 1 is a view showing the improved shortbutter. ening creamer in side elevation, Having thus described the invention, what is Figure 2 is a sectional view taken on the line claimed as new is:

2-2 of Figure 1 and looking down upon the head 1. A shortening creamer comprising a bowl 50 or bowl of the implement, arcuate longitudinally and transversely and Figure 3 is a Sectional w taken transversely formed with longitudinally extending slots spaced o h the han on h line o i u e transversely from each other, standards rising and from ends of saidbowl and having their upper Figure 4 is a sectional view taken on the line portions bent to provide inwardly extending arms 55 4- o i u e disposed at substantially right angles to said 2. An implement including upright members, arms extending towards each other from said upright members, a handle extending between said upright members and formed with a longitudinally extending recess receiving the arms and also formed with circumferentially extending recesses intersecting the longitudinally extending recess, and bands carried by said arms and engaged about the handle and seated in the circumferentially extending recesses.

IDA J. FEDJE. 

